The guidelines already cover this:
reply> Please don't use HN primarily for promotion. It's ok to post your own stuff part of the time, but the primary use of the site should be for curiosity.
https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I assume that users who primarily/only post their own stuff and get flagged a lot reap the consequences, there's plenty of spam filtering on here thank goodness.
Those who slip promo of their own sites among a stream of other legitimate submissions or just space it out enough across multiple accounts can fly under the radar for years. People know how to game HN and already are, e.g. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49517728
replyThat one didn't work though:
replyThat's just one account that unmasked itself and was noticed. Doubtlessly that didn't stop them from moving on to the next one.
replyOh, absolutely. But there are accounts that are active here for months or years, that one at least got killed while still green.
replymake interactions with others' posts/post others' stuff a soft req for posting your own stuff? So not following it could be deemed actionable by the hn mod team?
replyEdit: nvm thats already in the guidelines